单词 | gabelle tax |
释义 | > as lemmasgabelle tax General attributive and appositive, as gabelle house, gabelle man, gabelle tax, etc. ΚΠ 1650 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Exact Hist. Late Revol. Naples i. 20 Other quarters of the Citty, where all the gabell houses [It. le case delle Gabelle] were. 1835 W. Peter Brief Appeal to Govt., in Behalf of Inhabitants of Ceylon 10 A great reduction of the duty might have been made in the Gabelle districts, without any diminution of the general revenue. 1837 T. Carlyle in London & Westm. Rev. Jan. 398 He flung gabelle-men and excisemen into the river Durance..when their claims were not clear. 1881 8th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Rep. & App.: Pt. I p. xvi, in Parl. Papers (C. 3040) LV. 1 Simon de Montfort's charter for the remission of gable-pence and bridge silver to the burgesses of Leicester. 1923 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 31 118 Any region in France which happened to be rich in salt or in the possession of a good harbor,..would be of especial value to the government because of the gabelle tax. 2009 N. Horesh Shanghai's Bund & Beyond 188 The three largest sources of government revenue..were excise on opium, alcohol, and gambling; salt gabelle duties, and the Maritime Customs receipts. < as lemmas |
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